After the Point of No Return

✍ Scribed by Wagoner, David

• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cover; Return; Note to the Reader; Dedication; Contents; 1; After the Point of No Return; A Brief History; The Ends of My Fingers; The Fun House; Convivium; Driving; In the Congregational Basement; Kissing Cousins; A Footnote to the History of theNew York Central Railroad; My Father's Body; My Lost Uncles; Mother's Night; Onstage; Walking Along the Beach with a Five-Year-Old; Pleasant Dreams; For My Daughters during Their First Penumbral Eclipse; Playground; The Boy Who Ran Away from Me; 2; A Letter to an Old Poet; How to Live; Writing for Money; That Night in London.;David Wagoner's study of American nostalgias is as eloquent as that of James Wright."?Harold Bloom.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Return
Note to the Reader
Dedication
Contents
1
After the Point of No Return
A Brief History
The Ends of My Fingers
The Fun House
Convivium
Driving
In the Congregational Basement
Kissing Cousins
A Footnote to the History of theNew York Central Railroad
My Father's Body
My Lost Uncles
Mother's Night
Onstage
Walking Along the Beach with a Five-Year-Old
Pleasant Dreams
For My Daughters during Their First Penumbral Eclipse
Playground
The Boy Who Ran Away from Me
2
A Letter to an Old Poet
How to Live
Writing for Money
That Night in London. The Hazards of SerenadingPreaching to the Choir
Breakfast with Salesmen before the Poetry Reading
On Being Asked Once More What a Poem Is
Being a Model
On the Persistence of Metaphor
Long Overdue Praise for Her
Orpheus Practicing
Listening
Signing
Never Let Your Characters Sit Down
At the Farewell Performance of Henry Ellsworth
Before the Poetry Reading
Striking the Set
Aristotle Comes to a Conclusion
3
Going Back to the Sea
Ashes
By a Pond
By a Creek
The Cherry Tree
In a Greenhouse
Rain Dance in a Rain Forest
Dust Devil
Your Tree
Meeting a Stranger
Panic. Among BramblesFoxhole
Photographing Snakes
What the Marine Biologist Told Me
Thoreau and the Mud Turtle
Thoreau and the Loose Cow
Thoreau and the Lightning
The Fly
At the Ostrich Farm
Pig Dance
The Last Good Hour of a Worker Bee
The Dead
4
This Is Only a Test
Marksmanship
Under Fire
At Dawn on the Fifth of July
Fighting the Blizzard
Rooming with Jesus
Running the Four Hundred Meters
Life Class
Overheard at Dinner in the Home of a Recent Widow
The Minutes of the Last Meeting
A Preface to the History of Chairs
By the Empty Stone
Pounding Swords into Ploughshares. The SaluteInstructions for the Caretaker
On the Road
A Zodiac for the Twenty-Second Century
The Bitter End
5
Lost in Thought on an Extension Ladder
Off Balance
The First Law of Thermodynamics
The General Theory
Falling into Place
Helping the Home Patient Fall Asleep
A Cold Call
In Memory of His Memory
Coolness under Fire
Our Bodies
For Their Second Childhood
In the Nursing Home
The Name
A Beginner's Guide to Death
About the Author
Books by David Wagoner
Acknowledgments
Copyright.

✦ Subjects

American poetry;Poetry;Poetry, American;POETRY--American--General;;POETRY -- American -- General